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Wednesday, October 22, 2014

Cover Reveal & #Giveaway: Hook, Line, and Sinker by Piper Vaughn

Piper Vaughn wrote her first love story at eleven
and never looked back. Since then, she’s known that writing in some form was
exactly what she wanted to do. A reader at the core, Piper loves nothing more
than getting lost in a great book—fantasy, young adult, romance, she loves them
all (and has a two thousand book library to prove it!). She grew up in Chicago,
in an ethnically diverse neighborhood, and loves to put faces and characters of
every ethnicity in her stories, so her fictional worlds are as colorful as the
real one. Above all, she believes that everyone needs a little true love in
their life…even if it’s only in a book.

When they were teens,
Castor McCormick was the bane of Blake Kowalski’s existence. Their mutual
animosity led to summers filled with rivalry. Now, nearly two decades later,
Cas is moving back into the neighborhood to live in his grandmother’s old
house. Blake tells himself he isn’t interested in seeing how snarky little Cas
grew up, but when his mother dupes him into visiting his former nemesis, he
finds out “pretty” can evolve into “sexy as hell” on the right man.Cas didn’t think he wanted to see Blake again.
No one has ever pushed his buttons like the arrogant boy he remembers from
their youth. Turns out, the adult version of Blake still gets him hot under the
collar—and everywhere else. With Blake on leave from work to nurse an injured
leg and Cas taking time to move and unpack, they form a tentative friendship
that turns into a sexual affair neither man can deny. But when Cas’s job sends
him out of state to deal with a difficult client, their new relationship will
be tested, and if they fail, Blake’s broken leg might not be the only thing to
end up scarred.

Excerpt

Blake's mother
didn’t live on a busy street, but being summer, the kids were out in full
force. The occasional shout or burst of laughter broke the monotonous silence.
And then there were the comings and goings of a certain new neighbor whom Blake
had absolutely no interest in watching, even if he found his gaze frequently
straying in that direction. He’d caught glimpses of the moving truck over the
weekend, along with a dark blue Prius, which made him snort. No doubt the
driver of a hybrid would hate his gas-guzzling Ford F-150. For some reason, it
seemed fitting. He could picture the old Cas growing up into the tree-hugging,
granola type.

Idly, he let
himself wonder what the adult Cas might be like. When they’d first met as
teenagers, the kid had reminded Blake of a scrappy little Irish chimney sweep,
minus the accent. The pale skin, the freckles, that mop of messy dark hair. Put
him in a newsboy cap and some wool trousers, and he could’ve been an extra in
Oliver Twist. Blake had constantly ragged on him about it too. That is, until
the following year, when postpuberty Cas showed up. Gone was the scrawny,
gangly limbed half-pint from the previous summer. In his place stood a boy with
the lithe, wiry body of a distance runner and a face like something out of a
goddamn Botticelli painting. Only his smartass mouth had stopped Blake from
falling to his knees in worship—though it certainly hadn’t prevented a wet
dream or three.

Blake
couldn’t lie. His mother’s mentions of Castor had made him curious despite
himself. But he didn’t intend on giving in to her badgering about going over
there. What the hell would he even say? Welcome
to the neighborhood? Here’s a fruit basket. Let’s be friends? He could only
imagine Cas slamming the door in his face in response. Blake chuckled and shook
his head. Not going to happen. Not in a million years. No matter how much his
mother pestered him.

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